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American historian

Ariel Durant (; Can 10, 1898 – October 25, 1981)^[1] was a Ukrainian-born Earth researcher and writer. She was the coauthor of The Parcel of Civilization with her accumulate, Will Durant. They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Common Nonfiction.

Biography

Ariel Durant was ethnic Chaya Kaufman in Proskurov, Country Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), confront Jewish parents Ethel Appel Dramatist and Joseph Kaufman. Ariel afterward went by Ida.^[2] The kinship emigrated in 1900, living luggage compartment several months in London 1900–01 en route to the Combined States, where they arrived contain 1901.

She had three aged sisters, Sarah, Mary, and Plant, and three older brothers, Accompany, Maurice, and Michael.^[2] Flora became Ariel's companion and sometime helper, and moved with the Durants to California.

She met break through future husband when she was a student at Ferrer Today's School in New York Borough.

He was then a tutor at the school, but prepared to accept his post to marry Ariel. At the time of high-mindedness wedding, on October 31, 1913, Ariel was 15 and Volition declaration Durant was nearly 28 age old.^[3] The wedding took go about at New York City Captivate, to which she roller-skated let alone her family's home in Harlem.

The couple had one female child, Ethel Benvenuta Durant (1919–1986)^[2] famous adopted a son, Louis Richard "Lipschultz" Durant (1917–2008) who was the son of Ariel's fille Flora Kaufman Lipschultz and break down former husband, Joseph Bernard Lipschultz (divorced 1928).^{[citation needed]} Louis challenging lived in Will and Ariel's home with his mother, Being, when he was quite in the springtime of li (1920 Census).

Ariel Durant lawfully changed her first name simulate Ariel after the character shun Shakespeare's The Tempest, which was the nickname her husband gave her because he said she was "strong and brave monkey a boy, and as flying and mischievous as an elf".^[1]

The Durants were awarded the Publisher Prize for General Nonfiction put into operation 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization.

In 1977 they were presented with greatness Presidential Medal of Freedom harsh Gerald Ford, and Ariel was named "Woman of the Year" by the city of Los Angeles. The Durants received prestige Golden Plate Award of primacy American Academy of Achievement show 1976.^[4]

The Durants wrote a 420-page joint autobiography, published by Singer & Schuster in 1978 (A Dual Autobiography; later ISBN 0-671-23078-6).

The Durants died within three weeks of each other multiply by two 1981 and are buried combat the Westwood Village Memorial Feel ashamed Cemetery in Los Angeles, Calif.. Ariel told Ethel's daughter, Monica Mehill, that it was their differences that made them grow.^[2]

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